NIPC Law

 Contains public sector information licensed under the OG Licence v3.0.    Jane Lambert Patents Court (Daniel Alexander QC)  Reaux-Savonte v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2021] EWHC 78 (Ch) (22 Jan 2021) This was an appeal by the inventor, Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte, against Mr Huw Jones's decision of 19 May 2020 to uphold the examiner's objection to Mr Reaux-Savonte's patent application number GB1520019  for The Genome and Self-evolution of AI (see  Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte's application   O/284/20).  The appeal came on before Mr Daniel Alexander QC sitting as a judge of the High Court on 2 Dec 2020. By his judgment which he handed down on 22 Jan 2021, Mr Alexander dismissed the appeal (see  Reaux-Savonte v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2021] EWHC 78 (Ch) (22 Jan 2021)). The examiner had objected to the application on the ground "that the invention was nothing more than da...

Senado Federal / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Daniel Alexander QC)  Planetart LLC and another v Photobox Ltd and another [2020] EWHC 713 (Ch) (25 March 2020) This was an action for trade mark infringement. passing of f and invalidation of one of the defendant's trade marks. The claimants were the Delaware company,  Planetart LLC , and its English subsidiary, Planetart Ltd .  Those companies offer a photo printing service called FreePrints that is best explained in the How it Works video on the home page of their website. The defendants, Photobox Ltd.  and Photobox Free Prints Ltd.  offer a service that is similar to the claimants'. The first claimant has registered the following as a UK trade mark for a range of goods and services in classes 9, 16, 40 and 42 under trade mark number  UK3393165  with effect from 17 April 2019: The defendants have used the fol...

Author : Pearson Scott Foresman Reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owner Source  Wikipedia Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Daniel Alexander QC)  Freshasia Foods Ltd v Jing Lu [2018] EWHC 3644 (Ch) The first intellectual property judgment of the New Year is Mr Daniel Alexander QC's  decision in Freshasia Foods Ltd v Jing Lu [2018] EWHC 3644 (Ch) (4 Jan 2019).  The learned deputy judge seems to have made his order on 19 Dec 2018 after a hearing that had taken place the previous day but he delivered the reasons for his order on 4 Jan 2019. The Dispute Mr Alexander described  Freshasia Foods Ltd . ("Freshasia") as "a UK registered company which supplies food products, particularly dumplings and sliced meats, to Chinese retail shops and restaurants." He added that it has between 100 and 200 employees, a turnover in the millions of pounds and about 500 customers in total in the UK and the EU. He n...